Category Archives: Social Media
Jun 26, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Featured, Social Media
Ow.ly is a URL shortener that has gained a measure of popularity of late. It ties in with the HootSuite service, which allows you to schedule tweets, manage multiple Twitter profiles, and track link statistics. Ow.ly and HootSuite together are sort of like an amalgam of Tweetable, Bit.ly, and TwitterFeed.
But let’s focus on the URL shortener for now. Ow.ly has a clean, easy to use interface. The resulting URLs are along the lines of http://ow.ly/fA3N. As of yet, there is no API available, though one is in the works.
Time for the controversial part.
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Jun 10
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Apr 24
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Apr 21
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Apr 16
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Apr 15
I previously talked about the controversy surrounding Digg’s new DiggBar. It continues, and gets more interesting. Digg claims that the DiggBar is not a bad as people are making it out to be: We took several steps to ensure that search engines continue to…
Apr 7
Jeff Chandler has a short, interesting article up on Performancing about Tweetmeme, and the explosive popularity of their “Retweet This” widgets, which make it easy to retweet a post (and display a count of the number of times it has been retweeted). If you…
Apr 6
Digg recently threw the switch on their new DiggBar, a little toolbar combined with a URL shortener. The toolbar is really an HTML frameset. Every link on Digg.com will have the DiggBar on top of it when you click through, unless you turn it…
